When viruses play team sports: Mixed infections in plants

AB Moreno, JJ López-Moya - Phytopathology, 2020 - Am Phytopath Society
The pathological importance of mixed viral infections in plants might be underestimated
except for a few well-characterized synergistic combinations in certain crops. Considering …

Facilitative and antagonistic interactions between plant viruses in mixed infections

J Syller - Molecular plant pathology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Mixed infections of plant viruses are common in nature, and a number of important virus
diseases of plants are the outcomes of interactions between causative agents. Multiple …

Virus diseases of peppers (Capsicum spp.) and their control

L Kenyon, S Kumar, WS Tsai, JA Hughes - Advances in virus research, 2014 - Elsevier
The number of virus species infecting pepper (Capsicum spp.) crops and their incidences
has increased considerably over the past 30 years, particularly in tropical and subtropical …

Synergies and antagonisms in virus interactions

T Mascia, D Gallitelli - Plant Science, 2016 - Elsevier
Metagenomic surveys and data from next generation sequencing revealed that mixed
infections among plant viruses are probably a rule rather than an exception in natural …

Implications of mixed viral infections on plant disease ecology and evolution

C Alcaide, MP Rabadán, MG Moreno-Perez… - Advances in virus …, 2020 - Elsevier
Mixed viral infections occur more commonly than would be expected by chance in nature.
Virus-virus interactions may affect viral traits and leave a genetic signature in the population …

Transgenic tomato plants expressing artificial microRNAs for silencing the pre-coat and coat proteins of a begomovirus, Tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus, show …

T Van Vu, NR Choudhury, SK Mukherjee - Virus Research, 2013 - Elsevier
Designing artificial microRNAs (amiRs) targeting the genes responsible for viral replication,
transmission and symptom development after viral infection offers a promising strategy to …

Capsicum-infecting begomoviruses as global pathogens: host–virus interplay, pathogenesis, and management

R Devendran, M Kumar, D Ghosh, S Yogindran… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
Whitefly-transmitted begomoviruses are among the major threats to the cultivation of
Capsicum spp.(Family: Solanaceae) worldwide. Capsicum-infecting begomoviruses (CIBs) …

The pepper virome: natural co-infection of diverse viruses and their quasispecies

Y Jo, H Choi, SM Kim, SL Kim, BC Lee, WK Cho - BMC genomics, 2017 - Springer
Background The co-infection of diverse viruses in a host plant is common; however, little is
known about viral populations and their quasispecies in the host. Results Here, we report …

Virus-virus interactions in a plant host and in a hemipteran vector: Implications for vector fitness and virus epidemics

S Gautam, KR Gadhave, JW Buck, B Dutta, T Coolong… - Virus research, 2020 - Elsevier
Mixed virus infection in host plants can differentially alter the plant phenotype, influence
vector fitness, and affect virus acquisition and inoculation by vectors than single-virus …

Synergistic interaction among begomoviruses leads to the suppression of host defense-related gene expression and breakdown of resistance in chilli

AK Singh, N Kushwaha, S Chakraborty - Applied Microbiology and …, 2016 - Springer
Chilli (Capsicum sp.) is one of the economically important spice and vegetable crops grown
in India and suffers great losses due to the infection of begomoviruses. Conventional …